Out of 217 submissions from 40 countries, according to architect and jury chair Michael Sorkin, the jury shortlisted eight entries that they believed had the most outstanding concepts. However, these "winning" ideas aren't necessarily refined and final proposals.

“We initiated this project out of a sense of both outrage and love. Outrage at the march of the homogenizing multi-national brand culture emblematized by the imperial Guggeheim franchise – the cultural equivalent of Starbucks – was what launched us," Sorkin said in a statement. "The feeling of love came from our mutual affection for Helsinki, from a sense that it is a singular place, unique in setting, form, and culture. Understanding the impetus to acquire a Guggenheim as a pursuit of the vaunted Bilbao effect, the idea that some gaudy global repository would put a tired place on the map, we wondered why a city so indelibly fixed in the urban firmament, so superb, would want to surrender such a fabulous site to some starchitect supermarket."

Have a look at the shortlisted entries below. (Entries are marked with their submission numbers.)

Out of 217 submissions from 40 countries, according to architect and jury chair Michael Sorkin, the jury shortlisted eight entries that they believed had the most outstanding concepts. However, these "winning" ideas aren't necessarily refined and final proposals.

“We initiated this project out of a sense of both outrage and love. Outrage at the march of the homogenizing multi-national brand culture emblematized by the imperial Guggeheim franchise – the cultural equivalent of Starbucks – was what launched us," Sorkin said in a statement. "The feeling of love came from our mutual affection for Helsinki, from a sense that it is a singular place, unique in setting, form, and culture. Understanding the impetus to acquire a Guggenheim as a pursuit of the vaunted Bilbao effect, the idea that some gaudy global repository would put a tired place on the map, we wondered why a city so indelibly fixed in the urban firmament, so superb, would want to surrender such a fabulous site to some starchitect supermarket."

Have a look at the shortlisted entries below. (Entries are marked with their submission numbers.)